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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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Israel reproved for her manifold sins—Ephraim is mixed among the people.
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When</span> I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, <i>and</i> the troop of robbers spoileth without.
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And they consider not in their hearts <i>that</i> I remember all their wickedness: now their own <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 5: 22.">doings</a> have beset them about; they are before my face.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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They <i>are</i> all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, <i>who</i> ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
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In the day of our king the princes have made <i>him</i> sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: <i>there is</i> none among them that calleth unto me.
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Ephraim, he hath <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Separation.">mixed</a> himself among the people; Ephraim is a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/7/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 24: 5.">cake</a> not turned.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">Strangers</a> have devoured his strength, and he knoweth <i>it</i> not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rebellion.">return</a> to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/7/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 9: 13.">seek</a> him for all this.
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&#182; Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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When they shall go, I will spread my <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 12: 13; Ezek. 17: 20.">net</a> upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
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Woe unto them!  for they have fled from me: <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 43 (42-43).">destruction</a> unto them!  because they have transgressed against me: though I <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/7/13b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR would have redeemed them.">have</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/7/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Micah 6: 4.">redeemed</a> them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
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And they have not <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 2: 13 (11-13).">cried</a> unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, <i>and</i> they rebel against me.
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Though I have <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/15a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB trained.">bound</a> <i>and</i> strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
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They return, <i>but</i> not to the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/7/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 11: 7.">most</a> High: they are like a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/7/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 78: 57.">deceitful</a> bow: their princes shall <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/7/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 5 (1-6, 24).">fall</a> by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this <i>shall be</i> their derision in the land of Egypt.
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